Posted on 07/23/2015 2:04:34 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In what may prove to be a turning point for political action on climate change, a breathtaking new study casts extreme doubt about the near-term stability of global sea levels.
The study—written by James Hansen, NASA’s former lead climate scientist, and 16 co-authors, many of whom are considered among the top in their fields—concludes that glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica will melt 10 times faster than previous consensus estimates, resulting in sea level rise of at least 10 feet in as little as 50 years. The study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, brings new importance to a feedback loop in the ocean near Antarctica that results in cooler freshwater from melting glaciers forcing warmer, saltier water underneath the ice sheets, speeding up the melting rate. Hansen, who is known for being alarmist and also right, acknowledges that his study implies change far beyond previous consensus estimates. In a conference call with reporters, he said he hoped the new findings would be “substantially more persuasive than anything previously published.” I certainly find them to be....
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These people live in their own world, facts cannot penetrate
I wish they would stay in their own world, and leave the rest of us the heck alone.
Hansen is dumber than a box of rocks. Still pimping his “global warming”.
Like most liberals they actually don't have any facts, just spout the typical AGW talking points like parrots...
Plus we don't attack each-other, we can have reasonable discussions without going overboard...
Exactly! He’s just a willing tool of the political left apparatik.
And the Antarctic is near record high ice coverage. The point is, geologists have pointed to multiple ice ages and warm periods. Government taxation and regulation will not impact Gaia one whit.
It just occurred to me this guy may be the real reason leprosy is called Hansen’s disease...they needed something truly vile for the name.
No. You are missing my point. I was worried that a family member could show a particular model for a particular site. As for multiple ice ages I am well aware of the theories as to the number of multiple ice ages and how the role of eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession of the earth’s orbit can cause the changes in the earth’s ice sheets (Milankovitch theory).
And just the other day we learned our sun was entering a cooling phase. Guess I’ll have to sell my Florida home just to be safe and move to the mountains.
Gee doesn’t Al Gore have a seaside mansion in California? Someone should let Al know so he can get the carpets rolled up before they get wet
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Can he demonstrate this by predicting what will happen to the ice in 6 months?
If he can’t why not?
Round, even, imprecise numbers = wild guess.
When the doom isn’t happening like they completely guessed it woud; make the doomage a million times worse!
Here’s a fun bet to make with liberal friends...
Tell them on April 15the of every year for the next ten years YOU will give them a dollar if the bellwether Pacific Islands (that are only 2 inches above sea level) have gone under water.
If the islands are still above water YOU collect the dollar from them... then and every year for the 10 years the islands are above sea level.
If they take the bait, the 15th of April also becomes a good date to explain why they’re wrong on taxes too.
Hey, have some respect. Liberal elites were right about the Club of Rome... millions of us have starved to death..
They were right about 'peak oil'... there's no oil left and we're all riding bicycles to work...
They were right about natural resources running out... look around you at the $19,000 a pound people are paying for steel.
Chris Cuomo did a special for ABC News some years back... and he was right that Manhattan would be under water BY THE YEAR 2015... All those Stock Brokers swimming to work - it's a crying shame.
Great idea, thank you. I’ll have to remember that. Do you know which islands, specifically? There’s so many of them.
I’ll see if I can find the names - in the mean time he’s something fun:
This was an ABC ‘special’...
Whitlock takes a well-deserved bow, in a flashback on Newsbusters:
New York City underwater? Gas over $9 a gallon? A carton of milk costs almost $13? Welcome to June 12, 2015. Or at least that was the wildly-inaccurate version of 2015 predicted by ABC News exactly seven years ago. Appearing on Good Morning America in 2008, Bob Woodruff hyped Earth 2100, a special that pushed apocalyptic predictions of the then-futuristic 2015. The segment included supposedly prophetic videos, such as a teenager declaring, “It’s June 8th, 2015. One carton of milk is $12.99.” (On the actual June 8, 2015, a gallon of milk cost, on average, $3.39.) Another clip featured this prediction for the current year: “Gas reached over $9 a gallon.” (In reality, gas costs an average of $2.75.)
On June 12, 2008, correspondent Bob Woodruff revealed that the program “puts participants in the future and asks them to report back about what it is like to live in this future world. The first stop is the year 2015.” As one expert warns that in 2015 the sea level will rise quickly, a visual shows New York City being engulfed by water.
I’ll see if I can find the names - in the meantime here’s something fun:
This was an ABC ‘special’...
Whitlock takes a well-deserved bow, in a flashback on Newsbusters:
New York City underwater? Gas over $9 a gallon? A carton of milk costs almost $13? Welcome to June 12, 2015. Or at least that was the wildly-inaccurate version of 2015 predicted by ABC News exactly seven years ago. Appearing on Good Morning America in 2008, Bob Woodruff hyped Earth 2100, a special that pushed apocalyptic predictions of the then-futuristic 2015. The segment included supposedly prophetic videos, such as a teenager declaring, “It’s June 8th, 2015. One carton of milk is $12.99.” (On the actual June 8, 2015, a gallon of milk cost, on average, $3.39.) Another clip featured this prediction for the current year: “Gas reached over $9 a gallon.” (In reality, gas costs an average of $2.75.)
On June 12, 2008, correspondent Bob Woodruff revealed that the program “puts participants in the future and asks them to report back about what it is like to live in this future world. The first stop is the year 2015.” As one expert warns that in 2015 the sea level will rise quickly, a visual shows New York City being engulfed by water.
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